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Welcome to the Virtuoso Violin Festival 2012
August 7, 2012 | 
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The 11th Virtuoso Violin Festival got off to a good start on Sunday evening with the ‘Rimma Sushanskaya and Friends‘ concert in Stratford-upon-Avon. This exciting concert show-cased some of the International participants, the Enigma String Quartet and, of course, Rimma Sushanskaya herself. The audience enjoyed pieces by Bach, Prokofiev and Vaughan Williams and during the interval it was a good opportunity to meet up with old and new friends from across the world.
We would like to take this opportunity to welcome course leaders and delegates back to Stratford-upon-Avon. We are sure you will have both a fruitful and enjoyable experience during your stay. Please do join us for student recitals on Saturday the 11th August at 7.30 p.m. This free concert will be held at the Levi Fox Hall, King Edwards School, Stratford-upon-Avon.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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Virtuoso Violin Festival Opening Concert
Violin festival set to take music-lovers by storm (Stratford Herald)
“The programme will begin on Sunday 5th August with a concert at King Edward VI School, featuring the festival’s artistic director Rimma Sushanskaya, who hails from Stratford, in a performance of Bach’s well-loved Concerto for Two Violins in D minor. Ms Sushanskaya will be playing with Francois Pineau-Benois, a young talent from France, and accompanied by the Enigma String Quartet.”
“This opening concert will also provide a rare opportunity to enjoy Bach’s seldom heard Concerto for Three Violins performed by Wonhae Bae, Joo Yeon Sir and Julia Liang, all currently studying with Professor Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music, in London.”
“The Enigma String Quartet will be joined by Junghee Keum for the beautiful and evocative Phantasy Quintet by Vaughan Williams and exciting virtuosos Wonhae Bae and Joo Yeon Sir, both from Korea, will complete the programme with Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins. Admission to the event is free.”
Want to read more of what the Stratford Herald says? Please click here
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Happy Birthday Samuel Barber!
It is Samuel Barber’s Birthday and he would have been 102 today.
Happy Birthday Samuel!
This is Barber’s Adagio for Strings performed by the Stratford Virtuosi Orchestra and conducted by Rimma Sushanskaya.
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Virtuoso Violin Festival 2012
Final festival Concert 2011
This year the Virtuso Violin Festival will take place between Sunday the 5th and Tuesday 14th of August. Further information is available on the Virtuoso Violin Festival Page. You may want to make a note of the Festival Concerts dates as these are enjoyable events of a very high standard – perfect for those of you who love music and an evening out in the beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. Combine a concert with a dinner in one of the many restaurants of Stratford and the evening will be perfect!
Concerts dates are:
- Sunday 5th August
- The Levi Fox Hall, King Edwards School, Stratford-upon-Avon,
- 7.30pm
- Featuring ‘Rimma Sushanskaya and friends‘
- Admission free.
- Saturday 11th August
- The Levi Fox Hall, King Edwards School, Stratford-upon-Avon,
- 7.30pm
- Featuring Student Recitals
- Admission free.
- Monday 13th August
- The Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon-Avon
- 8.00pm.
- Tickets £10/£7.
- Stratford Virtuosi Orchestra will perform the
- Bach Concerto for 3 violins in D major BMV 1064,
- Vaughan Williams Concerto Grosso,
- Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C major Op.48.
We hope to see some of you there.
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Musical Opinion, Review September 2011
Musical Opinion, Sept – Oct 2011, page 52
By Robert Matthew-Walker
Musical Opinion, Classic Music Magazine, can be found on-line at http://www.musicalopinion.com
Festival Images
Here are some pictures taken during the week at the Virtuoso Violin Festival. Mostly these are at work or performing – but there was a lot of fun taking place as well!
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Festival Participants performed a final recital
Festival Participants performed a final recital unaccompanied and with piano last night (Saturday 6th August).
This was a really exciting concert performed by young people from Sweden, France, UK, Russia, Taiwan and Korea.
Councillor Eric Payne, Chair of the Stratford District Council expressed his pleasure at being in the audience for this event and thanked all the participants, accompanists and tutors for their hard work culminating in such a wonderful recital.
We hope you will be able to join us for our final concert on Monday 8th August in the Holy Trinity Church at 8 p.m.
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All geared up!
Another good day in Stratford yesterday. It might have rained but it didn’t stop everyone working hard and playing hard and Rimma was heard to say that life in Stratford at the moment was ‘crazy but exciting!’. Last night there was a party at Rimma’s home and students from France, Russia, Sweden and the UK enjoyed the entertainment which included the ever popular ‘ping-pong‘!
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